McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
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1 McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) directions Read the Case Background and Key Question. Then analyze the Documents provided. Finally, answer the Key Question in a well-organized essay that incorporates your interpretations of the Documents as well as your own knowledge of history. Constitutional Principles Federalism Limited government Case Background The Necessary and Proper Clause gives Congress the power to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States. It is not a free-standing grant of power, but rather was intended to give Congress the power to enact laws needed to carry into execution the various powers granted to the federal government by other parts of the Constitution. The wording of the Clause suggests that a law authorized by it must meet two separate requirements: it must be necessary to the execution of some power granted to the federal government, and also proper. Since at least the 1790s, debate has raged over the meaning of these two terms. In the early republic, debate over the interpretation of the Clause focused on the constitutionality or lack thereof of the First Bank of the United States. When the Bank was first proposed in 1790, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson argued that its establishment was not authorized by the Necessary and Proper Clause because the word necessary should be interpreted to include only such measures as are truly essential to the implementation of other federal powers. By contrast, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton defended the Bank, arguing that necessary should be interpreted to include any law that is useful or convenient. The issue of the constitutionality of the Bank did not reach the Supreme Court until 1819, when the justices decided the case of McCulloch v. Maryland. While the Supreme Court has addressed the meaning of the word, necessary in a number of cases over time, it has focused far less attention to the meaning of proper. Controversy over both terms continues. federalism and the constitution 9
2 Teaching Tips: McCulloch v. Maryland Learning objectives Students understand the major events and controversies related to interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause from the founding to the present day. Students understand and apply constitutional principles at issue in McCulloch v. Maryland to evaluate the Supreme Court s ruling in that case. Activities 1. To prepare students for his lesson, have them read the Case Background for McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). 2. Lead students though a careful whole-class study of Documents F, G, and H. These reports prepared by President Washington s cabinet members on the National Bank establish the primary lines of reasoning for differing methods of interpreting the Necessary and Proper Clause. 3. Assign appropriate documents for student analysis. Documents A I address the historical background and Constitutional significance of the issues in McCulloch v. Maryland. Documents J M prompt students to consider the continuing significance of these constitutional issues. 4. Use key question, Does the Necessary and Proper clause grant a new power or does it serve to limit the ones that come before it? What does Proper mean? for class discussion or writing assignment, focusing on the constitutional principles involved in the case. 5. Have students use Graphing Federal Power to show the change in the level of federal power over time, using the Supreme Court cases, McCulloch v. Maryland and U.S. v. Comstock. They may expand on this graph as they study the constitutional principle of federalism in the remaining lessons in this unit, Gonzales v. Raich and South Dakota v. Dole. 6. Have students collect and analyze current events articles related to the Necessary and Proper Clause. See Appendix for additional Graphic Organizers. 10
3 Background Information on McCulloch v. Maryland Documents F, G, H: Cabinet Opinions regarding constitutionality of a national bank By the time President George Washington named Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton had already begun to craft a plan to assure the economic success of the new nation. Central to his plan, which was modeled on the English financial system, was the incorporation of a national bank that would stimulate the economy and establish the credit of the United States. Other members of Washington s cabinet were skeptical. Washington asked each one to prepare a report explaining his answer to this question: Does the Constitution permit Congress to establish a national bank? Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, (Document F) interpreted the Necessary and Proper Clause narrowly, deciding that the bank was unconstitutional because it was not specifically included in the enumerated powers of Congress. Based on his interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause, Attorney General Edmund Randolph (Document G) advised the President that the bank was unconstitutional. Hamilton built his defense of the bank on the implied powers of the Necessary and Proper Clause. Hamilton s argument (Document H) was most persuasive to Washington and he signed the Bank Bill. These approaches to understanding the powers of the national government set the foundation for analysis of the constitutional limits on national power continuing into the present day. Document I: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Unanimous Opinion In 1819 the United States had been a nation under the Constitution for barely a generation when an important case about federal power reached the Court. A National Bank had been established in When its initial twenty-year charter came up for renewal in 1811, Congress voted not to extend it. Then, following the nation s brush with bankruptcy in the War of 1812, Congress established the second National Bank of the United States in Those who supported a National Bank maintained that it was necessary to control the amount of unregulated paper money issued by state banks. However, most states opposed branches of the National Bank within their borders. They did not want the National Bank competing with their own banks, and objected to the establishment of a National Bank as an unconstitutional exercise of Congress s power. The state of Maryland imposed a tax of $15,000/year on the National Bank, which cashier James McCulloch of the Baltimore branch refused to pay. The case went to the Supreme Court. Maryland argued that as a sovereign state, it had the power to tax any business within its borders. McCulloch s attorneys argued that it was necessary and proper for Congress to establish a national bank in order to carry out its enumerated powers. Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the Necessary and Proper Clause provided for implied powers, including a power to establish the bank. Document J: Jackson s Veto Message, July 10, 1832 By the 1830s, the National Bank had experienced several phases of good and bad management, and had weathered charges of corruption. The Bank was a volatile political issue, with many supporters in the East and many detractors in the West and South. The 1828 election of Andrew Jackson as President brought the Bank s most powerful enemy to the White House. He saw the Bank as a greedy monopoly dominated by a powerful elite and foreign interests. The Bank s second charter was set to expire in 1836, but in 1832 Senator Henry Clay proposed re-chartering 11
4 it early, explaining a number of benefits and winning approval of his bill in both Houses of Congress. However, Jackson s view of the Bank is summarized in a February 19, 1932 letter to John Coffee: Unless the corrupting monster should be shraven with its ill-gotten power, my veto will meet it frankly and fearlessly. As promised, Jackson vetoed the bill. Congress could not muster the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the veto, so the bank s charter expired in 1836 and was never renewed. Document L: U.S. v. Comstock (2010), Majority Opinion (7-2) President George W. Bush signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act into law in The law required that sex offenders register their whereabouts periodically, created a national sex offender registry, and Section 4248 of the law provided for continued incarceration of certain offenders even after they had completed their criminal sentences. A federal judge had authority to civilly commit individuals who were in the federal prison system if it were proven that they continued to be sexually dangerous. Just before Graydon Comstock was to have completed his 37-month sentence for receiving child pornography, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales certified that he remained a sexually dangerous person, which meant that he would not be released. Lower courts had ruled that Section 4248 of the law was unconstitutional, on the basis that it exceeded the constitutional power of Congress. Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, determining that the powers implied in the Necessary and Proper Clause built on themselves and granted Congress the power to enact such a law. 12
5 McCulloch v. Maryland Constitutional Principles Federalism Limited government key Question To what extent does the Necessary and Proper Clause grant a new power to Congress? What does Proper mean? A United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 (1787) B An Old Whig (1787) C Brutus #1 (1787) D Federalist #33 by Alexander Hamilton (1788) E Federalist #39 by James Madison (1788) F Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (1791) G Memorandum #1: Edmund Randolph to George Washington (1791) H Alexander Hamilton s Opinion on the National Bank (1791) I McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Unanimous Opinion J Jackson s Veto Message, July 10, 1832 K King Andrew the First cartoon (1833) L U.S. v. Comstock (2010), Majority Opinion M U.S. v. Comstock (2010), Dissenting Opinion 13
6 document a United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 (1787) The Congress shall have Power To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. 1. Underline the most important words and phrases in this passage and put them in your own words document b An Old Whig (1787) My object is to consider that undefined, unbounded and immense power which is comprised in the following clause: And, to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States; or in any department or offices [officer] thereof. Under such a clause as this can any thing be said to be reserved and kept back from Congress? [B]esides the powers already mentioned, other powers may be assumed hereafter as contained by implication in this constitution. The Congress shall judge of what is necessary and proper in all these cases and in all other cases in short in all cases whatsoever. Where then is the restraint? How are Congress bound down to the powers expressly given? What is reserved or can be reserved? 1. State in your own words the main concerns of the author of this passage. 14
7 document c Brutus #1 (1787) [T]he legislature of the United States are vested with the great and uncontrollable powers, of laying and collecting taxes, duties, imposts, and excises. And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. [I]t is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all. 1. According to Brutus, what governments are in danger? 2. What observation does Brutus make about human nature? 3. What does Brutus say will necessarily happen if the federal government is to succeed at all? Why? 15
8 document d Federalist #33 by Alexander Hamilton (1788) These two clauses [the necessary and proper clause and the supremacy clause ] have been the sources of much virulent invective and petulant declamation against the proposed constitution, they have been held up to the people, in all the exaggerated colours of misrepresentation, as the pernicious engines by which their local governments were to be destroyed and their liberties exterminated as the hideous monster whose devouring jaws would spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane; and yet strange as it may appear, after all this clamour, to those who may not have happened to contemplate them in the same light, it may be affirmed with perfect confidence, that the constitutional operation of the intended government would be precisely the same, if these clauses were entirely obliterated, as if they were repeated in every article. If the Federal Government should overpass the just bounds of its authority, and make a tyrannical use of its powers; the people whose creature it is must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution, as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify. The propriety of a law in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded 1. According to Hamilton, why are these two clauses not cause for concern? 2. What must the people do if the government becomes tyrannical? 16
9 document e Federalist #39 by James Madison (1788) But if the government be national with regard to the operation of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the extent of its powers. The idea of a national government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful government. In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects. It is true that in controversies relating to the boundary between the two jurisdictions, the tribunal which is ultimately to decide, is to be established under the general government. But this does not change the principle of the case. The decision is to be impartially made, according to the rules of the Constitution; and all the usual and most effectual precautions are taken to secure this impartiality. 1. According to Madison, the government established by the Constitution has an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things as long as what? 2. What does Madison say is the role of the tribunal (the Supreme Court) in deciding questions between the federal and state governments? 17
10 document f Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (1791) I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that all powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people [Tenth Amendment]. To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition. The incorporation of a bank, and other powers assumed by this bill have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare....[g] iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please and this can never be permitted. 1. Name at least two main reasons that Jefferson gave for not interpreting the powers of Congress broadly. 18
11 document g Memorandum #1: Edmund Randolph to George Washington (1791) February 12, 1791 The Attorney General of the United States in obedience to the order of the President of the United States, has had under consideration the bill, entitled An Act to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States, and reports on it, in point of constitutionality, as follows The general qualities of the federal government, independent of the Constitution and the specified powers, being thus insufficient to uphold the incorporation of a bank, we come to the last enquiry, which has been already anticipated, whether it [a National Bank] be sanctified by the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution. To be necessary is to be incidental, or in other words may be denominated the natural means of executing a power. The phrase, and proper, if it has any meaning, does not enlarge the powers of Congress, but rather restricts them. For no power is to be assumed under the general clause but such as is not only necessary but proper, or perhaps expedient also. However, let it be propounded as an eternal question to those who build new powers on this clause, whether the latitude of construction which they arrogate will not terminate in an unlimited power in Congress? In every aspect therefore under which the attorney general can view the act, so far as it incorporates the Bank, he is bound to declare his opinion to be against its constitutionality. 1. According to Randolph s reasoning, how should the word, necessary be defined? 2. In your own words, explain Randolph s view that The phrase, and proper, if it has any meaning, does not enlarge the powers of Congress, but rather restricts them. 19
12 document h Alexander Hamilton s Opinion on the National Bank (1791) It is not denied that there are implied well as express powers, and that the former are as effectually delegated as the latter. Then it follows, that as a power of erecting a corporation may as well be implied as any other thing, it may as well be employed as an instrument or mean of carrying into execution any of the specified powers, as any other instrument or mean whatever. The only question must be in this, as in every other case, whether the mean to be employed or in this instance, the corporation to be erected, has a natural relation to any of the acknowledged objects or lawful ends of the government. Thus a corporation may not be erected by Congress for superintending the police of the city of Philadelphia, because they are not authorized to regulate the police of that city. But one may be erected in relation to the collection of taxes, or to the trade with foreign countries, or to the trade between the States, or with the Indian tribes; because it is the province of the federal government to regulate those objects, and because it is incident to a general sovereign or legislative power to regulate a thing, to employ all the means which relate to its regulation to the best and greatest advantage. To establish such a right, it remains to show the relation of such an institution to one or more of the specified powers of the government. Accordingly it is affirmed, that it has a relation more or less direct to the power of collecting taxes; to that of borrowing money; to that of regulating trade between the states; and to those of raising, supporting & maintaining fleets & armies. The constitutionality of all this would not admit of a question, and yet it would amount to the institution of a bank, with a view to the more convenient collection of taxes. To deny the power of the government to add these ingredients to the plan, would be to refine away all government. 1. Below are paraphrases of steps that Hamilton followed in order to reason that creation of the first national bank was a constitutional exercise of the power of Congress. Number them in the correct order to follow Hamilton s reasoning. Implied powers are as effectually delegated as the expressed powers. Certain expressed powers are related to establishment of a national bank. Implied powers are inherent in the definition of government: To deny the power of the government to add these ingredients to the plan, would be to refine away all government. We must determine whether there is a natural relation between the national bank and one or more of the lawful purposes of government. 20
13 document i UNANIMOUS opinion McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Although, among the enumerated powers of Government, we do not find the word bank or incorporation, we find the great powers, to lay and collect taxes; to borrow money; to regulate commerce; to declare and conduct a war; and to raise and support armies and navies. The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation are entrusted to its Government. [I]t may with great reason be contended that a Government entrusted with such ample powers, on the due execution of which the happiness and prosperity of the Nation so vitally depends, must also be entrusted with ample means for their execution. Does [the word, necessary ]always import an absolute physical necessity? We think it does not. [W]e find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means without which the end would be entirely unattainable. [It is clear] that any means adapted to the end, any means which tended directly to the execution of the Constitutional powers of the Government, were in themselves Constitutional. We think so for the following reasons: 1st. The clause is placed among the powers of Congress, not among the limitations on those powers. 2d. Its terms purport to enlarge, not to diminish, the powers vested in the Government. It purports to be an additional power, not a restriction on those already granted. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are Constitutional. That the power to tax involves the power to destroy [is a proposition] not to be denied 21
14 The Court has [determined] that the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the General Government. This is, we think, the unavoidable consequence of that supremacy which the Constitution has declared. We are unanimously of opinion that the law passed by the Legislature of Maryland, imposing a tax on the Bank of the United States is unconstitutional and void. 1. How did Chief Justice John Marshall interpret the following clauses of the Constitution in the unanimous opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland: Commerce Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, and the Supremacy Clause? 2. Did the opinion in this case align more with the reasoning of Hamilton, Jefferson, or Randolph? 22
15 document j Jackson s Veto Message, July 10, 1832 To the Senate....It is maintained by the advocates of the bank that its constitutionality in all its features ought to be considered as settled by precedent and by the decision of the Supreme Court. To this conclusion I can not assent. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.... The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve. I understand them to have decided that inasmuch as a bank is an appropriate means for carrying into effect the enumerated powers of the General Government, therefore the law incorporating it is in accordance with that provision of the Constitution which declares that Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying those powers into execution. Having satisfied themselves that the word necessary in the Constitution means needful, requisite, essential, conducive to, and that a bank is a convenient, a useful, and essential instrument in the prosecution of the Government s fiscal operations, they conclude that to use one must be within the discretion of Congress Under the decision of the Supreme Court, therefore, it is the exclusive province of Congress and the President to decide whether the particular features of this act are necessary and proper in order to enable the bank to perform conveniently and efficiently the public duties assigned to it as a fiscal agent, and therefore constitutional, or unnecessary and improper, and therefore unconstitutional. [M]any of the powers and privileges conferred on it can not be supposed necessary for the purpose for which it is proposed to be created, and are not, therefore, means necessary to attain the end in view, and consequently not justified by the Constitution. It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles. Most of the difficulties our Government now encounters and most of the dangers which impend over our Union have sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate objects of Government by our national legislation, and the adoption of such principles as are embodied in this act. 1. What are the main objections that President Jackson raised against the National Bank? 23
16 document k King Andrew the First cartoon, Why was Jackson attacked as a tyrant in this cartoon? 2. Was Jackson trying to expand or limit the role of the national government? the Bill of Rights Institute mcculloch v. maryland 24 Courtesy - Library of Cogress LC-US2C-12983
17 document l U.S. v. Comstock (2010), Majority Opinion The Necessary and Proper Clause grants Congress broad authority to enact federal legislation. Nearly 200 years ago, Chief Justice Marshall emphasized that the word necessary does not mean absolutely necessary. Congress has the implied power to criminalize any conduct that might interfere with the exercise of an enumerated power we must reject [the]argument that the Necessary and Proper Clause permits no more than a single step between an enumerated power and an Act of Congress... To be sure, as we have previously acknowledged, the Federal Government undertakes activities today that would have been unimaginable to the Framers in two senses; first, because the Framers would not have conceived that any government would conduct such activities; and second, because the Framers would not have believed that the Federal Government, rather than the States, would assume such responsibilities. Yet the powers conferred upon the Federal Government by the Constitution were phrased in language broad enough to allow for the expansion of the Federal Government s role. The Framers demonstrated considerable foresight in drafting a Constitution capable of such resilience through time. As Chief Justice Marshall observed nearly 200 years ago, the Necessary and Proper Clause is part of a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. 1. How does this ruling interpret the Necessary and Proper Clause? 2. Who or what should be the one to do the adapting of the Constitution Chief Justice Marshall referred to 200 years ago? 25
18 document m U.S. v. Comstock (2010), Dissenting Opinion The Constitution plainly sets forth the few and defined powers that Congress may exercise. Article I vest[s] in Congress [a]ll legislative Powers herein granted, 1, and carefully enumerates those powers in 8. The final clause of 8, the Necessary and Proper Clause, authorizes Congress [t]o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Art. I, 8, cl. 18. As the Clause s placement at the end of 8 indicates, the foregoing Powers are those granted to Congress in the preceding clauses of that section. The other Powers to which the Clause refers are those vested in Congress and the other branches by other specific provisions of the Constitution. Congress lacks authority to legislate if the objective is anything other than carrying into Execution one or more of the Federal Government s enumerated powers. This limitation was of utmost importance to the Framers. Referring to the powers declared in the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton noted that it is expressly to execute these powers that the sweeping clause... authorizes the national legislature to pass all necessary and proper laws. James Madison echoed this view, stating that the sweeping clause... only extend[s] to the enumerated powers. Statements by delegates to the state ratification conventions indicate that this understanding was widely held by the founding generation... I respectfully dissent 1. On what basis does the dissenting opinion disagree with the majority s interpretation of the Necessary and Proper clause? directions Read the Case Background and Key Question. Then analyze the Documents provided. Finally, answer the Key Question in a well-organized essay that incorporates your interpretations of the Documents as well as your own knowledge of history key Question To what extent does the Necessary and Proper Clause grant a new power to Congress? What does Proper mean? 26
19 Graphing federal powers McCulloch v. Maryland 1824 Gibbons v. Ogden 1935 Schechter v. U.S U.S. v. Butler 1942 Wickard v. Filburn For each case listed on the table below, assign a score on a scale of 1 10, showing to what extent federal power changed South Dakota v. Dole 1995 U.S. v. Lopez 2000 U.S. v. Morrison 2005 Gonzales v. Raich 2010 U.S. v. Comstock 27
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